Benchmark HPA4 Review - Andrew Everard, HI-FI NEWS
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jsmiller58
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Nov 1, 2018
Yeah, but wow, the price. A lucky few will get to appreciate this. The rest of us will live vicariously.
jsmiller58
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Nov 3, 2018
I know! My priorities are my wife and sons first, then I can play... Hence the live vicariously comment :-). I am thrilled that the world offers wonders and options, even those that I cannot, or chose not to, indulge in. That is a great world to live in. Anything else would be... I lack the words to describe it... but the closest would be "shades of grey".
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SOUND "All of a track or two should do the trick, as whether with revealing headphones ... or used as a preamp, the HPA4 simply drops jaws with the sheer impact, openness and vivacity of the way it plays music.""I played a new Channel Classics recording, pianist Anna Fedorova's Four Fantasies [CCS 41318; DSD 256], and was instantly struck by the way it sprang to life, with every element of the playing, and the size of the Steinway in a credible concert-hall acoustic, readily on display.""It was one of those real 'performer in the room' experiences and I was instantly transported back to the time I spent monitoring the recording as it was being made in the Eindhoven Muziekgebouw back in July.""The HPA4 can certainly rock out, it prodigious capability when it comes to output levels meaning it can five as much as your phones can take.""Its beauty is that it sets no limits on your system: any failings audible will need to be looked for elsewhere."- Andrew Everard, Hi-Fi News
Read the entire article in the November 2018 issue (pages 70 - 73)